Hawon KU is an art historian with a special interest in the visual cultures of early modern and colonial South Asia. She is Professor of Indian Studies in the Department of Asian Languages and Civilizations, Seoul National University. Hawon’s research interests encompass eighteenth- to twentieth-century cultural histories of South Asia. Her current project, supported by the National Research Foundation of Korea, examines women patrons and artists in India. Apart from her work on Company paintings, this project examines the paintings of Victorian women travellers in India, as well as Indian women patrons of Jaina temples and civic buildings during the nineteenth century.

• 2007 Ph.D., University of Minnesota